This distance looked far to the naked eye, but to radar, it was point-blank range. If their goal was to shoot down the ships, they would have emptied their missiles ten times over.
However, this couldn't be blamed on the ships beneath them. After all, they were just a bunch of civilian ships at best, good enough for dealing with Orks trash, but helpless against Aeldari technology.
Of course, it wasn't as if no one had noticed.
About two or three hundred kilometers outside the outer ship, the fleet had deployed many patrolling air wings. These proper military aircraft could still sweep out these enemies at medium range.
But the Drukhari, while not taking the time to shoot down these fighters, also carried out targeted strong communications jamming, making it completely impossible to warn the fleet.
These fighters, which weren't even specialized air combat types, couldn't catch up, of course, and couldn't get a fire control lock either, so they could only watch them fly away.
By the time the ship realized that the communications had been cut off, it would probably take at least a few minutes. By then, these Drukhari would have already flown up to their faces.
Fortunately, before things devolved to the final step, they were discovered.
Inside the ship.
When Zhang Ge realized who the enemy was, he unhesitatingly contacted Artwood and said concisely:
"Sound the alarm, quickly."
The latter didn't question him after hearing the serious tone, but directly started accessing the captain's frequency.
However, just as these words were spoken, before Artwood could relay them to the captain, a shrill alarm began to sound throughout the ship.
It was also at this moment that the communication was cut off by the enemy's jamming, but fortunately, the alarm signal had been transmitted before this moment, and the entire fleet began to switch to alert status.
The triple-layered wailing sound meant the highest level of anti-boarding alarm. Under this level, anyone on the ship who was still able to act, regardless of their identity, should be armed immediately and prepared to resist the attack.
Such a fast response speed? Or did someone just happen to see the enemy?
Zhang Ge was slightly puzzled in his heart, but there was no time to be too entangled. He turned his gaze away from the picture on the side and said:
"Keep up."
Not hearing a response, he turned his head around for the first time and found that the girl's figure had already disappeared, leaving only the noblewoman still unconscious there.
Accepting temporary cooperation doesn't mean accepting joint action, does it? Alright, alright.
You better not suddenly come back to me sometime asking me to help you with something.
Looking around and not finding her figure, Zhang Ge could only complain inwardly.
He began to move towards the deck.
Although he couldn't fully believe that this Xenos's purpose was really something about stopping him from continuing to move forward, the Drukhari on their faces were real, and the matter about her could only be discussed later.
Outside, some people were still a little confused in the alarm sound, but most of the nobles had returned to their rooms and equipped themselves with all kinds of bizarre weapons.
Although they had no intention of actively attacking, if the flames of war spread here, these people obviously wouldn't mind giving the invaders a head-on blow.
And the guards who were originally stationed in various places were leaving their duty stations and heading to the defense positions of their own troops. Most of the elites from various troops were guarding this ship. The entire process of switching to defense was orderly. Although everyone was running, no team fell into chaos because of it.
When Zhang Ge came to the deck—that is, the landing platform—after passing through a series of flowing troops, he found that most of the various fighters that had been neatly arranged had already taken off.
At the same time, the protective shells were rising on both sides of the ship, slowly closing towards the middle, covering the entire deck above under their protection.
A large number of armored vehicles rumbled along as they were deployed as temporary fire points to the reserved firepower positions, and some walkers simply climbed to various places hanging on the outside of the ship.
In this tense atmosphere that rose with the alarm, Zhang Ge also saw Amilia and the others here.
Since they had been staying at the garrison, they were already together when the incident happened. They didn't go to the defense position just because they were looking for Zhang Ge, who was the only one missing.
In the end, they met the deputy commander here and, after hearing him say that Zhang Ge would definitely return here as soon as possible to gather and stay here, they stayed to wait.
Without making many greetings, Zhang Ge asked, "Where's Artwood?"
As a Space Marine, if he was caught and subjected to the Ultimate Insult, it was estimated that the morale of those pdfs would drop by half.
Amilia replied:
"I don't know, but we saw that Thunderhawk Gunship taking off when we arrived here."
Hearing these words, Zhang Ge thought of a somewhat absurd possibility:
This guy isn't planning to jump into the Drukhari's flagship directly, is he?
Outside.
In the optical sights of the weapon platforms, the Drukhari's various aircraft and airships were rapidly expanding. Dozens of vehicles carried about two hundred or so infantry.
Although the number seemed small, their extremely advanced weapons and undeniable high level of combat proficiency allowed them to exert extremely strong destructive power with a small number of people.
The first to leave their formation was a dozen Venom, those super-fast "air motorcycles" easily leaving the already extremely fast friendly forces behind, charging towards the largest warship.
And on both sides, four Razorwing Fighter also left the formation.
Although the number was far less than the enemy's, these four fighters pounced extremely excitedly at the Imperial aircraft that had just taken off from various places and were flying towards them to intercept the enemy - especially the big blue Thunderhawk Gunship in the lead.
That was a rare prey.
However, what everyone didn't expect was that the first contact between the two sides wasn't the aircraft groups flying directly towards each other.
A black shadow broke through the clouds and flew vertically upwards from directly below at an unimaginable speed.
Even the Chaos Escort's shipborne anti-aircraft fire control only discovered this fighter when it was extremely close, let alone some low-power "toys" on the airships?
Under its own intentional concealment, the radars on both sides were unable to capture its existence at all.
By the time she flew straight to the target from directly below a Razorwing and entered the visual range of the troops behind, the enemies who saw her didn't have time to remind each other.
In the instant before contact, the Valkyrie rotated its fuselage, making the belly face the Razorwing's wing above.
The Drukhari pilot of the Valkyrie, who had just realized through the vibration of the airflow that it had approached, froze.
In the next moment, the rear tail of the Valkyrie directly scraped across its fragile wing surface. The Razorwing, which had exchanged armour for speed, was already poorly protected, let alone such a high-speed contact?
The cross-section was instantly cracked open, and countless metal fragments flew out in the collision and cutting. A breach and the airflow sweeping past the Valkyrie's fuselage directly physically overturned this Razorwing.
Its wreckage swayed as it fell to the ground, and no matter how hard the pilot tried to control it, it showed no intention of climbing.
This Valkyrie declared its existence in the most violent way and at the same time humiliated these Drukhari, who prided themselves on speed and lethality, in the most arrogant way.
This caused the remaining three Razorwings to abandon the enemy aircraft group that was charging towards their main force in annoyance and anger, and instead bit at the enemy fighter.
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